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have all been bespoken by the Director of the Botanical Department, 
Northern India, for planting out next autumn in the usar reserves, 
e whole stock is therefore being evite for that purpose," (Report 
for 1888, p. 11. 
_“ The sate stock of young plants made mention of in the last 
report w takon over by the Director of the Botanical Department, 
und were > pikatod under his direction in the «sar reserves of the 
Aligarh and Cawnpore distriets. Another large batch is now under 
propagation for m: in the same manner during the current season,” 
(Report for 1889, p. 1 
e last official note on the Salt-bush at Saharunpur is contained 
in the fo Doing. extract from the Report of the Garden for the year 
ending 31st March 1890 (pp. 11-12) :— 
“A few ilius of this fodder were planted out last’ rains to 
take the place of some which had died. A considerable number 
of plants remain on hand for distribution, but there was n 
ctor of. the 
diee in case the arh and onc, “ates should 
turn out to be reese i encouraging for trying this. plant on a larger 
e at some future period.” 
The following detailed information respecting à the introduction of the 
Australian-salt bushes into Cape Colony and the success which has - 
been obtained with them is taken from the Agricultural Journal of 
Cape Colony for the 18th May 1893 
(ån viplex nummularia, Lindl. ie A. halimoides, Lindl.).—-The 
following interesting report by Mr. E. Garwood Alston, of Van Wyk's 
Vley Estate, giving an account of his success in ac climatising the plant 
and distributing the seed of the Australian salt- bush, which has proved 
of such immense value as fodder plant in this colony, i is published for 
general information :— 
In April 1886, a year or two after my father had commenced the 
evolution of an agricultural centre from a dam and a desert stretch of. 
Karoo, Professor MacO wan, our kind and poii adviser in botanical 
matters, sent us six seeds of Atriplex halimoides, Lindl., one of the 
Australian salt-bushes, for trial here. y two came up; one aat 
before reaching maturity, and the abe — ts the mother - 
all the A. halimoides found in this eo 
Later on a second packet of A. reer: n ny and Á. nummularia 
Lindl., was sent by Professor MacOwan (they had been obtained fm. 
Sir Ferd. v. Mueller, the Government ee of Victoria), but as we 
had established the first-named, only 4. nummularia was sown, with 
the result that in a year’s time we were in possession of a — large 
enough to supply seeds in fair quantities to farmers oa other 
ll the seeds were sown from half-an-inch to an inch deop i in | brackish 
clay soil, and after the plant once commenced to mature its seed, it pro 
pagated ‘itself rapidly enough “a enable us to keep up e supply in 
mes of heavy demands every y 
_ I should not like to say ams as e fodder Peu the amita species 
. are better than our own Atriplex Halimus, but the popular idea locally 
“ethos ~ ina come Pe ge is less salt, and more can be eate n by 
